Javier González de Prado Salas Contact jgonzalezdeprado@gmail.com Areas of specialization Areas of interest Normativity Theory, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind, Metaethics, Philosophy of Biology and the Cognitive Sciences, Aesthetics, Pragmatism Employment 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon 2015-2017 Profesor Ayudante (Teaching Fellow). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain) Education 2016 PhD, Philosophy, University of Southampton (United Kingdom) Supervisor: Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton) Examiners: Lee Walters (University of Southampton), Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh) 2009-2010 M.A. Logic and Philosophy of Science. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. 2007-2009 B.A. Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2002-2007 B.S. Physics (5 year degree, with first class honours). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Publications Journal articles Relativism and the expressivist bifurcation, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). Online first (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2017.1392833 Inferentialism, degrees of commitment, and ampliative reasoning, Synthese (forthcoming), coauthored with Xavier de Donato Rodríguez and Jesús Zamora. Online first (2017): doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1579-5 "Still Unsuccessful: the Unsolved Problems of Success Semantics", Theoria: An International Journal of Theory, History and Foundations of Science (forthcoming). "Whose purposes? Biological teleology and intentionality", Synthese (forthcoming) Online first (2017):
Reviews doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1416-x "Recommending Beauty: Semantics and Pragmatics of Aesthetics Predicates", with I. Milic, Inquiry (forthcoming). Online first (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2016.1238778 "The Contrast Between Permissions to Act and Permissions to Believe", Philosophical Explorations, 20, 21-34 (2017). "Defeasibility and Inferential Particularism", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 25, 80-98 (2017). "Pragmatism and Semantic Particularism", Disputatio, 43, 219-232 (2016). Schroeder and Whiting on Knowledge and Defeat. Logos & Episteme, 7(2) (2016) Metaphor and Engaged Coordination. Language Sciences 53, 75-85 (2016). Choosing Expert Statistical Advice: Practical Costs and Epistemic Justification, with D. Teira, Episteme, 12(1), 117-129 (2015). Collective actors without collective minds: an inferentialist approach, with J. Zamora-Bonilla, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45(1), 3-25 (2015). Un análisis inferencialista de la coautoría científica, with J. Zamora-Bonilla, Revista española de Documentación Científica, 37(4) (2014). Review of M. García Carpintero and M. Kölbel, The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Theoria, 29(3), 436-439 (2014). "Guía de campo para la Teoría de la Argumentación" (Reseña de L. Vega and P. Olmos, ed., Compendio de Lógica, Argumentación y Retórica), Isegoría, 46, 324-316 (2012). Presentations Biological regulation as a source of teleology Teleosemantics and the Nature of Functions workshop, University of Bielefield. September 2017 Disagreement, assertion and descriptive attitudes EPISOC Summer School in Social Epistemology, Madrid. August 2017. No reasons to believe the false 2017 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Edimburgo. July 2017. "Against the balance of reasons for belief" III Foundations of Normativity workshop, University of Edinburgh. June 2017. "Disagreement among and within groups" (with Jesús Zamora-Bonilla and Xavier de Donato)
Workshop on Disagreement and Groups, University of Copenhagen. March 2017. "Condicionales, generalizaciones ceteris paribus e inferencia científica" XXII Jornadas de Filosofía y Metodología Actual de la Ciencia, Ferrol. March 2017. "Epistemic standards and the dynamics of indicative conditionals" Workshop on Epistemic Expressivism, Universidad de Granada. January 2017. "Apuestas extremas" UNED, Madrid. December 2016 "Conditionals at stake" Conference of the Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica, Oviedo. November 2016. "Natural selection, biological purposes and intentionality" VI Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and the Cognitive Sciences, Barcelona. May 2016. Pragmatism and semantic particularism I Blasco Disputatio: Pragmatism, Valencia. October 2015. The natural origins of value (with Cristian Saborido) Normativity and Nature workshop, Universty of West England, Bristol. May 2016. XVth Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Helsinki. August 2015. Making right decisions with partial evidence: the contrast between epistemic and practical permissions VIII Meeting of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science, Barcelona. July 2015. An invitation to beauty (with Ivan Milic) European Society for Aesthetics conference, Barcelona. June 2016. LOGOS GRG seminar, Barcelona. March de 2015. Action as a source of knowledge: practical success and implicit beliefs European Epistemology Network, Madrid. July 2014. Defeasibility as a source of context-dependence Poster presentation, Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 7, Berlin. June 2014. Non-algorithmic skills: the case of metaphor Finding common ground: social, ecological and cognitive perspectives on language use, University of Connecticut. June de 2014. Defeasibility, inferentialism and communication Pragmatism and Communication, University of Helsinki. June 2014. "Teleosemantics, enactivism and biological norms" (with M. Heras Escribano) Poster presentation, ICOG, Sheffield. December 2013. "Commitment, entitlement and scientific inference" (with J. Zamora-Bonilla) IV Madrid Workshop on New Trends in the Philosophy of Social Science: Inferentialism in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, UNED Madrid. November 2013
Collective actors without collective minds (with J. Zamora-Bonilla) Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy meeting, Madrid. September 2013. Inferentialism as a form of context-sensitive semantics LOGOS GRG seminar, Barcelona. May 2013. The Indispensability of Metaphor Revisited Seminario de Investigación Filosófica, UNED, Madrid. March 2013. III Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and the Cognitive Sciences, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. April 2013- European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Granada. July 2013. On Inferentialism and Naturalism (con J. Zamora-Bonilla) Brandom and Pragmatism, Universidad de Alcalá. April 2013. Comments on: Miranda del Corral, "Practical Reasoning and Enkrasia" XV Taller d'investigació en Filosofia LOGOS, Universidad de Valencia. January 2013. "Inferentialism and collective intentionality" (with J. Zamora-Bonilla). III Madrid Worksop on New Trends in the Philosophy of Social Science: Inferentialism in the Philosophy of Language, Mind and Action, UNED, Madrid. October 2012. VIII Collective Intentionality, University of Manchester. August 2012. "Inferentialism, metaphor and context" VII Meeting of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology and the Philosophy of Science, Santiago de Compostela. July 2012. "Estética y evolución" Graduate Workshop, UNED, Madrid. January 2012. " Puede un robot transgredir las normas?: naturalismo y normalidad" XLVIII Congreso de Filosofía Joven, Donostia-San Sebastián. May 2011. Teaching Experience Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Rationality and Action (second term 2015/2016) Theory of Knowledge (first term 2016/2017) Topics in Analytic philosophy (first term 2016/2017) History of Science (second term 2016/2017) University of Southampton Ethics (first term 2012/2013; first term 2013/2014) Tutorial teaching: responsibilities included leading discussion groups and assessing the academic performance of the students Public engagement talks and Outreach Cómo aprender a romper las reglas, SEMAINO, La Corrala, Madrid, October 2017.
Interview with Carolina Sartorio on "Causalidad y libre albedrío", Radio 3, 24-02-2017 (with David Teira). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dda2z3ujreq La mente en el cuerpo: introducción a la embodied cognition (with M. Muñoz and A. Díaz), La universidad en la calle, Madrid, March 2014 Awards, honors and scholarships 2011-2015 FPI-UNED predoctoral scholarship 2011 FPU predoctoral scholarship Awarded, but declined because of incompatibilities with the predoctoral scholarship listed above. Autumn 2013 Research visit grant for UNED researchers (University visited: University of Southampton) Autumn 2012 Research visit grant for UNED researchers (University visited: University of Southampton) 2008-2009 Scholarship for the beginning of postgraduate studies in the UAM 2007 Extraordinary award for the best UAM Physics student graduating in 2007 2002-2006 Academic excellence scholarship awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid Research projects 2014-2017 Normative inferences and interferences in scientific research Spanish Ministry of Economy Research Project (FFI2014-57258-P) Principal investigators: Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, David Teira Part of the research team (activities include attendance to conferences, organization of academic events and publications) 2011-2014 Inferentialism as social epistemology Spanish Ministry of Economy Research Project (FFI2011-23267) Principal investigators: Jesús Zamora-Bonilla Part of the research team Organization of academic events EPISOC Summer School in Social Epistemology (Madrid, August 2017) Local organizing comittee SEFA Masterclass with Dorit Bar-On (UAM, Madrid, June 14-16 2017) Organizing committee European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Meeting (ENPOSS), Madrid, 2014 Local organizing committee V Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and the Cognitive Sciences, UNED, Madrid, 2015
Local organizing committee IV Madrid Workshop on New Trends in the Philosophy of Social Science: Inferentialism in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, UNED, Madrid, 2013 Organizing committee Department seminar coordinator, Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, UNED, 2011-2015 Coordinator of the Madrid Graduate Philosophy of Science Seminar (SFC). 2010-2015 Professional services Member of the steering committee of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy (since november 2016) Refereeing British Journal of Aesthetics, European Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy of Science, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Crítica, Isegoría, Endoxa, Ágora, Análisis, Theoria Languages Spanish: Native English: Fluent French: Reading: high/ Speaking: intermediate